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<i>Summertime is for road trips.</i> Atlas Obscura <i>and</i> All Things Considered <i>are traveling up the West Coast, from California to Washington, in search of "hidden wonders" — unique but overlooked people and places.</i><p>It's a little before 5:00 on a summer morning, and Matt Mikkelsen stands not so far down a …

The only gaming monitor I can wholeheartedly recommend<p>Is there a more painful sphere of technology to shop in than computer monitors? It’s an endless checklist of specs and standards that no one product ever seems to meet in full, all for a higher price than you feel like you should be paying. And …

When lost in space, it’s better to be rich<p><i>No Man’s Sky’s</i> recent update changed a whole bunch of things about the game, but one thing that didn’t change is that it’s a game full of currencies and resources that you will need to grind.<p>Among the most important are Units, the game’s basic currency, and …

Life in Australia is sold as the answer to all your worries. An English-speaking country with infinitely better weather and a deeply laid-back lifesytle, where people take off after work to laze on the beach and cook up a storm on the barbie.<p>This is propagated, to an extent, by programmes such as …

Mario Tennis Aces, Octopath Traveler, and the Splatoon 2 expansion is a perfect slate of weird, diverse Switch experiences<p>The Nintendo Switch is experiencing a bit of a lull at the moment. Following the console’s inaugural year, which included the huge hits <i>Super Mario Odyssey</i> and <i>The Legend of</i> …

Here's good news for anyone looking to save money: two PC games have gone free this weekend on Steam. This isn't one of those "free play weekend" deals where you lose access after the weekend is over, either. If you download Guns of Icarus Alliance and Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition …

Researchers analysed over 1700 novels to reveal six story types – but can they be applied to our most-loved tales? Miriam Quick takes a look.<p>“My prettiest contribution to the culture” was how the novelist Kurt Vonnegut described his old master’s thesis in anthropology, “which was rejected because …

I asked a senior German diplomat the other day what issues the United States and Germany are cooperating on. He looked blank. Not Iran, obviously. Not trade, evidently. Not climate change, blatantly. Not Russia, plainly. Not migration, pointedly. With alliances like these, who needs enemies?<p>From a …

The stakes are high, the consequences are higher. We prefer to stay safe and lonely. It’s the devil we know…<p>Perfectionism is a misnomer: it’s not really about trying to achieve perfection, it’s about never being good enough<p><b>Ellen Hendriksen</b> <b>is a clinical psychologist, regular contributor to</b> …

These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure.<p>The misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica is only the latest consumer privacy flap to create outrage. Remember the Equifax hack? That affected more than 230 million people. And in 2017, US …

One spring morning in 2015, Barbara Lipska got up as usual, dyed her hair and went for a jog in her suburban Virginia neighborhood.<p>But when she returned from a much longer than expected run, her husband Mirek was completely taken aback.<p>"I was lost in my own neighborhood," Lipska says. "The hair dye …

When Creative called me up to ask if I was interested in hearing something incredible, I was skeptical but curious.<p>After all, this was Creative we were talking about, the creator of the SoundBlaster, the default standard for audio in PCs in the '90s and early '00s, but the company as a whole hadn't …

I live in the East End of London and own my flat. I have a brain tumour. I’m dying – it’s inoperable, and I’m halfway through my third round of chemo.<p>I try to live my life to the full, in four-week sprints, with a round of chemo coming up every month.<p>When I was 25, I had a job paying a very decent …

Statistics came well before computers. It would be very different if it were the other way around.<p>The stats most people learn in high school or college come from the time when computations were done with pen and paper. “Statistics were constrained by the computational technology available at the …

Following an earlier giveaway to coincide with the launch of its Chinese New Year sale, GOG has now kicked off another. For a limited time, you can grab a free PC game--and not a bad one at that.<p>Offering something a bit more recent than last time around, Dungeons 2 is currently free on GOG. You can …